OSTRANDER: GENEALOGY BY NEWSPAPER©
A Collection of OSTRANDER Family Newspaper Notices
Today is Sunday, July 30, 2006 and, after an absence of 2 years or so (which included 2 computer crashes)....I'm back working on the page. I hope to add a good deal of entries that I've accumulated over this period of time....and to add some researchers (whom I have not forgotten). It'll take awhile....but I'll get there. Thanks for your patience.
INTRODUCTION
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For some time now my research efforts have been
concentrated on the OSTRANDER family genealogy - mainly as it relates to the
OSTRANDER family in Northern California. In the process I've managed
to collect a good number of newspaper notices (births, marriages, death notices
and obituaries, stories, etc.), and I've been wondering to what best purpose
I could put this "collection."
I've decided to "publish" the "collection" through this page and, in that fashion, share the information I've gathered with other OSTRANDER family researchers.
While the newspaper sources are mainly from Northern California, the people written about originated from all parts of the United States . . . Ostranders born in New York or Michigan or Colorado, died or married here; they had children and they lived their lives here, as well. So don't let the sources put you off . . . the one family member you've been looking for lo these many years - your "brick wall" - just might be found in the "collection." And the "collection" continues to grow as I do more "looking and finding."
THE "COLLECTION"
AND THE "BIG BOOK" -
In
1999, the Ostrander Family Association published its seminal work, "Ostrander:
A Genealogical Record 1660 - 1995," by Emmett and Vinton P. Ostrander (Ostrander,
Corliss, Ed., Walsworth Publishing Co., Marceline, MO), and since its publication,
my aspiration has been to provide a means to "update" the "Big
Book."
It is my hope that the "collection" will help in this endeavor - and, further, that it might also assist OSTRANDER researchers to further their efforts - even if they don't have a copy of the book.
NUMBERING CONVENTION -
When a notice
pertains to an individual included in the "Big Book," that notice
will be identified by the family member number assigned in the book.
When a notice pertains
to the spouse of an Ostrander, that individual will be assigned the family member
number of the Ostrander, with a "-s" to indicate "spouse."
As an example, the wife of Albert Abell OSTRANDER, below, would
be assigned the family member number, 14153-s. This convention will be applied
for both husband and wife spouses.
When
a notice pertains to an individual who is not included in the "Big Book,"
but who can be identified as a member of a particular family, I will assign
that individual a unique family member number, based on the family member number
of the father.
As a hypothetical example, let's take a family from page 531 . . .
14153 ALBERT ABELL OSTRANDER is listed showing a daughter, 14519 Elizabeth Jean. Supposing we have a notice that discovers Albert also had a son, John Benjamin. Since John Benjamin does not have a family member number, I would assign him a number, based on the number of his father . . . in this example, 14153-1. So any notice regarding this John Benjamin Ostrander would be found in the Index, under this number. Any subsequent "find" of additional family members for Albert would be assigned numbers, 14153-2, 14153-3, and so on.
UNCONNECTED OSTRANDER LINES -
When a notice pertains to an OSTRANDER family-member listed in the "UNCONNECTED" section of the "Big Book," that notice will be included here. "Unconnected" family lines are those family lines which cannot - at the moment - be directly connected to any of the "major" family lines in the book. These family members represent an exciting challenge to researchers - to be able to connect these members to their rightful place in the genealogy of the family and thereby, bring all the "pieces" together.
UNKNOWNS -
When a notice pertains to an OSTRANDER who cannot
be identified in the book, that notice will be listed in the Unknown Ostranders
Section. Hopefully, these "Unknown" family members can be identified
and numbered, and the notices moved to their proper family location.
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Last Updated August 2, 2006
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